Rain Lady

Air pollution caused by the Oregon wildfires is way above the hazardous scale in some places. Monitoring here. https://www.purpleair.com/map?opt=1/mAQI/a10/cC0#5.59/43.538/-122.114

No escape? http://oregonsmoke.blogspot.com/

Appalling pollution in Oregon at present cause by the wildfires. Oregon's Governor warned yesterday that it's the worst in the world. https://www.windy.com/-PM2-5-pm2p5?cams,pm2p5,45.213,-110.435,4 The fierce east winds have stopped and though there is a forecast change to the more usual westerlies, it is only slow - indeed days away. So the air is almost static and the authorities mentioned an inversion trapping the poliution over the fire ravaged areas. The scale of all tis damage is incredible.

Yes, hello, it's me Chrs. I had noticed you around too. Feeling very depressed at the state of farmland and buildings up here after this dreadfully wet cloudy summer. A long dry sunny spell would lift spirits and allow some catch up with work.

Patchy drizzle and light rain on and on. Picked up 12.9mm this morning from the manual gauge on the Met Office site here. Already 38.4mm this month. Somewhere up there maybe there's a sun shining. Work on the land this summer has been so difficult. Crops poor in the wet sunless.conditiions. August total was 200.0 mm exactly. Total for June, July, Aug = 660.5mm. !! Did fellow residents in the NW see the charts here -- https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/binaries/content/assets/metofficegovuk/pdf/weather/learn-about/uk-past-events/summaries/uk_monthly_climate_summary_summer_2020_3.pdf

Storm Francis - Picked up 37.3 mm from the manual gauge at 9 GMT for previous 24hrs. Aug total so far 194.2 mm. All on top of June 194.5 mm and July 266.0 mm. Only 5 wetter August totals since readings started here in 1968, but 2 will soon be beaten if we have some heavy showers.

Met Office shipping forecast at 6pm gave centre of low as 979 mb. Was then in N Irish Sea east of IOM. Where did it come ashore? Somewhere in Morecambe Bay?

Clip just now from Windy.com. Wales sheltering us perhaps.

Interesting watching this as the strong winds advance into the Irish Sea basin. https://www.windy.com/?53.264,-2.822,9 Zoom to get live cams in our region.

I see others have enjoyed the sunset sky! My pic when it was at the peach stage ..

NW sky appropriately on fire this evening with bright golden orange colours changing to intense red. However to south there's black threatening clouds. So -- what next? Not a drop of rain here today. No thunder as yet, though could hear very distant drumming late afternoon. Max temp today 29.2C. Sweaty and tropical. Currently 24.0C. Occasionally there's been a light NE breeze, but calm now. Clouds moving slowly from south all day.

Constant distant rumblings for last hour from all parts south and southwest from here. Like a far away battle field Large anvil came up from south half an hour agp and has spread cloud all over now. Previously had plenty of clear sky most of the day.

View East. A bit hazy, alas. Convection over Pennines beyond Burnley. Plus some floccus high up amongst nearer cloud. Which way is this lot going?

Can see to ESE a belt of lively convection lManchester - Pennines -- a whole row of boiling clouds.

Can see tall growing cloud in far distance -- seems to be just east of Manchester. Otherwise views all round are clear though hazy.

Collected 34.6mm rain from the manual gauge at 10am today. Nearly all came overnight. All this on top of 266.0mm for July. This was the wettest July recorded here since daily readings for Met Office began in 1968. So much rain and cloud up here in the western upslopes. A year without a summer, unless August makes a serious effort and brings back sunshine. So far the total for 2020 is 1132.4mm. Annual totals for 1971. 1995 and 1996 were less! Gardens, farmland and buildings look wrecked. Still raining.

Damianslaw. I always read your posts and share your pain!

SW corner of the Bowland Fells at 167m. Daily rainfall observations here for Met Office / EA since 1968. Same site, same kit. Just beaten the July rainfall record. This morning's collection of 13.5 mm for previous 24hrs brings July total so far to 256.4 mm. Previous record was July 2007 with 252.2 mm. And all this on top of June's high total of 194.5 mm. Farms, gardens, wildlife suffering. 2020 total so far 1085.6 mm – despite the very dry April and May. Long term annual average 1481.1 mm. Max annual was 1984.0 mm in 2012.

Heavy rain last night on these western upslopes. Picked up 26.9 mm at 10 BST this morning, 9 July, for previous 25hrs. So far 125.4 mm rain this month. Juue total was 194.5 mm. Some summery warm drought would be welcome.

Some rain data from the SW corner of the Bowland Fells. We've been voluntary rainfall observers for the Met Office here since 1968. Same site throughout. 167m asl. We use a manual Snowdon gauge and for our own extra interest we watch a clockwork Dines tipper. There's also a wireless linked automatic gauge sending data to the EA. Indeed it was very wet yesterday. Rained steadily all the time, apart from a drizzly lull in the evening. Total from 9GMT on Friday morning (3rd) to 9GMT today (4th) was 57.9 mm. Previous 24hrs we had 23.6 mm. Not the wettest day this year though. That was 59.6 mm on Feb 8th, storm Ciara. That was the start of a swilling wet spell until the tap was turned off in mid March. BTW total for June this year was 194.5 mm. Far above the long term average of 100.8 mm.